Friends were talking about seeing more live Jazz in Portland after catching Jan Koenig at Wilfs.

So I asked on Facebook – I hit a nerve. Quickly had a list of 12 musicians and 21 venues along with Portland Jazz Fest in February, 2024. So I organized the answers.

Here’s the: Portland Jazz List – Musicians and Venues

When looking at a situation – viewing it from a different perspective is often worthwhile. Case in point: while prepping for an interview, I came across these two wonderful documents from LinkedIn Talent Solutions for interviewers. They helped me prepare myself. Perhaps they will help you too!

I’ve been exploring my interest in practical applications of business plans. As an example, Kylie was super gracious and shared the finances and work related to her successful food blog I have followed for about a year. As she says she has “poured her heart and soul” into it! She gives a great summary of her goals over the last couple of years, which are numerous and comprehensive. Along with array of apps she uses to support her blog. Check it out! As it is a bit more to list than my usual five sentence summaries.

October Monthly Numbers
– Number of page views 101,576
– Number of users: 66,143

– Income: $1325
– Expense: $572
– Profit: $753 (pre tax)

– Number of Hours: 30-35

I like useful story telling. Ed Gregory does a great engaging job explaining the features of Adobe’s photo organizing and editing software Lightroom in 15 minutes.

Sometimes I’m astounded there is so much money in every day applications of high tech. SpotHero is helping parking lot owners sell spots to park the car as Kyle Wiggers August 22, 2019 column in Venturebeat.com explains “SpotHero raises $50 million to bring underutilized parking spaces online”

“Chicago, Illinois-based parking inventory and booking startup SpotHero today announced that it has secured $50 million in a series D round led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total raised to date to $118 million. CEO and cofounder Mark Lawrence said the round, which saw participation from investors Union Grove Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Global Founders Capital, OCA Ventures, AutoTech Ventures, and others, will strengthen the company’s partnerships with mobility companies and deepen its technology stack.

The fiscal vote of confidence comes after a year during which SpotHero reached half a billion dollars in all-time sales and 900-plus distribution partnerships and integrations…”

Recently I started reading LinkedIn Talent’s articles focused towards HR staff. I’ve noticed other topics on HR data analytics as well. What are they doing? Here is an example summarizing survey results within a much larger presentation, “2019 Global Talent Trends.”

I confess I’ve used foodgawker.com right along with everyone else! The site simply combines posts from food bloggers around the planet – then shows just the photos recipes based on your search. Like a photo – click on it and go to the recipe. Here are the search returns for ice cream:

Modular housing has come a long ways. The people behind connect-homes.com show us a way forward. They are focused on people rebuilding after the California wild fires.

In a KDnuggets.com article “Marketable Data Scientist” by Andrew Ste this August explains, “As a data scientist, you are in high demand. So, how can you increase your marketability even more? Check out these current trends in skills most desired by employers in 2019.” It’s all in the chart.

Of course you have to do some grilling in August! Shocked by how much they want for a good cut of meat? Me too. So let’s drop it down a few notches by cookin up some hot dogs in a good way.

Suzie of HeyGrillHey.com shows us how! Let’s roll her August 21, 2019 video …